Fluid Media: Changes Aren't Permanent But Change Is is a Summer 2026 exhibition presented by SHIM Art Network.

ODETTA Gallery, in collaboration with the SHIM Art Network's global community of artist-run galleries, will be presenting Color's Healing Force, By Any Means Necessary, a traveling exhibition of 19 artists' works in addition to four other galleries' installations within the SHIM Art Network.

Color's Healing Force, By Any Means Necessary, was initially shown at the Aqua Miami Art Fair in December, 2025. Venice is the second location on this tour in addition to these artworks being published on Artsy. The exhibition will be installed at Imagoars, Associazione Culturale ImagoArs, Cannaregio, Venice, Italy from September 3 through October 5, 2026. Gallery hours are 12–6 every day except Saturdays in observance of the Sabbath.

Color's Healing Force, By Any Means Necessary! is a call for color and its ability to heal. Think meditation, chakras, auras, vibration, protective colors as symbols, and more.

ODETTA's 19 artists participating are: Laura Bell, Jeff Becker, Christine Bittremieux, Wei Chao, Anastasyia Combs, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Anne Finkelstein, Sally Gil, Mimi Graminski, Ed Grant, Ali Ha, Ann Hitchcock, Inka Juslin, Susan Knight, Barbara O'Shea, Micha Riss, Jane Sangerman, Connie Newton Stancell, Margaret Tsirantonakis, and Constance Scopelitis (online exclusively)

Follow them on Instagram at: @artistaliha @lauraelizbell @christinebittremieux @freewei @anacombs75 @ehfaganstudio @annefinkelstein @salllygiil @mimigraminski @michriss @susan_r.knight @mtsiran @edgrantworks @constanceart @barbaraosheaphotography @connienewtonstancell @janesangerman @annhitchcock @firstindigoinka @constanceart

Contact: Ellen Fagan @ehfaganstudio

SHIM Art Network in collaboration with Art Pics art cards are excited to announce The Global Gift Shop international exhibition. Featuring encapsulated artworks — small, self-contained original artworks that enable creatives of all disciplines to engage in global exhibitions, and gain access to Artsy.net, the world's largest art e-commerce platform. This exhibition radically re-imagines the idea of what fine art can be, and in turn opens the art world to an enormous new class of younger, and more diverse collectors.

This fresh and innovative model was conceived by ArtPics Cards founder Gareb Shamus, who has a long and successful understanding of trading collectibles and building an enormous community of those who love them via his founding of Comic Con.

The Global Gift Shop is curated by French artist and curator Alexandra Mas, co-founder of The EDGE Magazine, a luxury and cultural biannual; and by Peter Hopkins, artist and founder of the SHIM Art Network. Resident artist Samantha Heydt will simultaneously create a micro-installation within this show. Further collaborators include Casa Lienzo artist residency of Mexico City, #Hashtag Gallery of Mexico City, and ODETTA Gallery of New York City — presenting a traveling exhibition of 10 x 10 inch works titled, Color's Healing Force, by Any Means Necessary!

Opening Reception: February 11, 5 PM – 8 PM Artist Talk: Saturday, March 7, 3–5 pm

ODETTA Gallery founder and curator Ellen Hackl Fagan expands the concepts in a liminal group exhibition opening February 11, 2026, at the LIC-A Art Space in Long Island City. This meditation on abandoned, vacant, or deserted places and objects evokes profound feelings of desolation, melancholy, and nostalgia. Part homage to overlooked remnants of the past and part cautionary tale about transience and neglect, the artworks invite viewers to reflect on familiar signs, surfaces, and locations encountered during travels and in everyday life.

The pieces transform the ordinary into a rich tapestry of personal and collective memory, expanding the endless scroll of possible narratives hidden within the mundane.

"The attraction I personally have to these works is about a deep wistfulness for the remnants of the ghosts of the past—captured in the cruddy, faded colors, peeling paint, and shattered glass," says Fagan. "I have a long-standing fascination with the Moderne Design of the 1930s through the 1960s, evident in both the architecture and the bold lettering on these old storefronts and signs, which once signaled velocity, ambition, and effortless style. What's left behind is both sad and undeniably beautiful."

To deepen the thematic exploration, Fagan has invited two distinguished guest artists, Patrick Sansone and Richard Klein, whose works serve as poignant anchors for the exhibition.

Art is a way of exploring, investigating, and expressing what matters most to us. The paths we follow while making art lead us into emotional territories inaccessible by any other means—realms beyond words or ideas. As artists, we draw attention to what we care about most and invite others to share in that experience.

Opening Reception: January 8, 6–8PM

Featuring: Martin Benson, Suzanne Benton, Sue Carlson, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Abby Goldstein, Tayo Heuser, Mary Judge, Andra Samelson, Keiji Shinohara, Suzan Shutan

Co-Curator's statement:

While running ODETTA Gallery in Bushwick, NYC, I kept a studio behind the exhibition space. Visiting artists often wandered back to find me absorbed in a series I call Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue. Surrounded by paintings awash in blue—spilling across the walls and even onto the floor—they would pause and linger, telling me that the color made them feel uplifted, alert, and alive. That experience was the impetus for this exhibition.

–Ellen Hackl Fagan

For more information or high-res images, please contact: Elizabeth Garvey · [email protected] · 917-796-2146

I am pleased to be a part of the exhibition, Roundish, featuring the works of 14 visual and performance artists in various media that focus on round and roundish forms.

Participating artists: Jeremy Bullis, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Mimi Czajka Graminski, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Kirsten Kucer, Penelope Hyde Levine, Bibiana Huang Matheis, Jennifer McGregor, Meg Pierce, Stephen Reynolds, Linda Stillman, Pamela J. Wallace, Hanna Washburn, Riva Weinstein

Entry to Salon Zürcher is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No Appointments Necessary.

Curated by John Cox and Alison Cuomo

Upheaval drives us to seek solace. With so many recent changes, what experiences afford us a moment of solace, respite? So much of our lives is meant as distraction—shiny, superficial, grasping, hoarding. What remains to stand against distraction?

Opening Day of Collaborative Events + Reception: May 3rd, 2025

This project is co-organized by MAPSpace, Patricia Miranda, Jenn Cacciola/Neptune in June, Natalya Khorover/Repurposer Collective, Michael Sylvan Robinson, and Sarah Valeri.

This show celebrates the significance of visual art as a medium that exists beyond language. Visual art encourages us to explore and inhabit spaces of thought and emotion that transcend language, highlighting its unique strength and power.

Language is defined as: 1.) a body of words and systems for their use, common to a people of the same community, nation, geographical area, or cultural tradition; 2.) the system of linguistic sounds considered in the abstract.

Art operates in a realm that transcends language. It engages with ideas at the edge of consciousness, often functioning on a subliminal level. Visual art speaks to individual experience, activating connections in the viewer's mind and triggering memories. It anchors the viewer's experience while pointing both inward to personal reflections and outward to the lived world.

An artwork is signs without signifiers, meaning without language. This is where the true power of visual art lies: it communicates what language cannot, offering insights and experiences that exist beyond linguistic constraints.

ODETTA Digital and the SHIM Art Network are at Aqua Art Miami Fair! Suite #216 and in the lobby. SHIM Art Network also has several connector groups featured in Room #201.

The artists' works are also available exclusively on Artsy. Check out our newest traveling exhibition opportunity, Exquisite AI.

All is fluid. In physics, a fluid is a body whose particles move easily among themselves. We artists who are involved with fluid media know this property of fluidity. The substance has discrete particles, and yet they move as one.

Seen from a great remove, this is a good description of life: a situation where smaller parts create the whole. We are a small part of an absolutely amazing world.

As Rick Rubin says in the end of his foundational book, "The Creative Act": "Art has an ability to connect us beyond the limitations of language. Through this, we get to face our inner world outward, remove the boundaries of separation, and participate in the great remembering of what we came into this life knowing: There is no separation. We are one."

November 9, 2023 – November 12, 2024

Curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan

"Nature's Way" is an exhibition demonstrating how artists select their subject matter when creating a work of art. Oftentimes artists are drawn to depict what they see, both in the outside world, and in their own mind's eye. Motivated by beauty, curiosity, emotion, and technology, artists often pursue making art as a means of better understanding their thoughts or tools.

Guiding this interest is a reference to the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius, circa 99–55 BC, who posits that we are part of a universe composed of atoms whose fate is based on scientific reasons rather than supernatural ones. In his poem "On the Nature of Things," he discusses that atoms have a swerve — a type of behavior he refers to as "free will" — which directs internal agency from the atomic level on up to all living creatures.

For "Nature's Way", fifty-four ODETTA Digital artists offer works that demonstrate their inner voice, that inner stirring that prompts them to make a work of art.

SHIM Special Projects: Ellen Hackl Fagan — Blue Immersion | SHIM Bridgeport / Art-Teenth June 17 – August 18, 2023 Opening 5–9 pm, 211 State Street, 3rd Fl, Bridgeport, CT 06604

Bla-bla Projektraum, in the Wedding neighborhood in Berlin, Germany June 16 through July 1 and on Artsy through August 18, 2023

Ellen Hackl Fagan — NY Artist's Equity Gallery Thursday, June 15 – Saturday, July 15, 2023

Hidden Glimmering, Fluid Media / SHIM Art Network, through March 10, 2023

ODETTA Digital Serious Play on Artsy, through January 12, 2023

SHIM Art Network, Jill Krutick Fine Art, Mamaroneck, NY. Through December 31, 2022

On Instagram through December 31, 2022 @fairshareart

Arts On the Lake, Carmel, NY, Anthony Carretta, Curator. October 15 – November 27, 2022

Ursa Gallery, Bridgeport Art Trail, Bridgeport, CT. November 11–14, 2022

Jersey City, NJ 4th Edition, November 11–13, 2022 Fluid Media group, Booth A 34

On view in Fairfield County, Connecticut in three locations through November 1, 2022 with Jeff Becker, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Jo Yarrington

SHIM/ARTCards on Artsy

Anagram Gallery, Anne Rynearson, Fall 2022, Virtual Exhibition

Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Curator, Fall 2022, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY

Fluid Media on Artsy

On Instagram through April 28, 2022 100% of the proceeds benefit Ukraine Relief efforts

Buyers make their offers in the comments and bid up in $10 increments through midnight on April 28. Buyers cover shipping costs and select one of three organizations to direct their donation: Ukrainian Red Cross, Global Giving for Ukraine, or HIAS for Refugees.

Invitational Exhibition

On view at Jill Krutick Fine Art and on Artsy through March 10, 2022

Curated by Joan Grubin

Project: ARTspace in NYC Opening date: September 13, 2021 Dates: September 13 – January 14, 2022 Artist's reception: Thursday, September 23, 5:30–7 pm

There will be two Saturday afternoon events in January: Ellen Hackl Fagan will be at the gallery on January 8 from 2–4 PM for light refreshments and conversation. Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll will be present on Zoom on January 15 for the exhibition's closing.

Visitors to the gallery must be vaccinated, wear masks, and observe social distancing.

Jason McCoy Gallery (Digital / Artsy) February 3 – March 1, 2021

Jason McCoy Gallery (Digital) February 3 – March 1, 2021

November 6, 2020 – January 30, 2021 Ursa Gallery, 1001 Main St, Bridgeport, CT 06604

Equity Gallery, curated by Patricia Fabricant Nov 5–28, 2020 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5, 2020, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Monday, Oct 26, 2020, 9:00 AM (Eastern US time), Duration: 60 minutes

September 13 through November 1, 2020

Online Exclusive, Ground Floor Gallery

Group exhibition August 1 – August 31, 2020

Solo Exhibit, July 17 – August 22, 2020 Five Points Art Gallery

June 12 – September 10, 2020

May 3–5 & 8–12, 12–7pm The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002

NoMAA Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, May 2020 Patricia Miranda, Curator

Jason McCoy Gallery, April 22–29, 2020

February 14–29, 2020 Curated by Christophe Dahlhausen and Michael Graeve

New York Artists Equity Association February 12 – March 7, 2020 Opening Reception Wednesday, February 12th, 6–8 PM Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002

Solo exhibition, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven CT November 20 – December 22, 2019

Celebration of Resilience & Resistance: Divine Moment

The Drawing Rooms at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London's walls are painted in a saturated yellow so dense it feels like you can breathe it in. Celebrating a patented, iconic color is a fitting way to open my first NYC home, in a 19th century garden apartment.

Nancy Baker, Steven Baris, Emily Berger, Paul Clabby, Mary Dwyer, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Peter Hopkins, Katherine Jackson, K K Kozik, Rene Lynch, Joanne Mattera, Stephen Maine, Lizbeth Mitty, Paula Overbay, Debra Pearlman, Margaret Roleke, Anne Russinof, Jane Sangerman, Sylvia Schwartz, Suzan Shutan, Susan Stair, Audrey Stone, Jo Yarrington

By appointment only and for the occasional Sunday afternoon.

BronxArtSpace · 305 East 140th Street #1A · Bronx, NY 10454 November 6 – December 12, 2019

Organized by Artist Carla Rae Johnson Croton Free Library, September 4 to October 30, 2019 Opening Reception: Sunday, September 8th, 2–4 pm

March 1 – April 26, 2019

Represented by Art Helix/SHIM, December 5–9, 2018 on South Beach

Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT. Tatiana Mori, Curator. November 15, 2018 – January 3, 2019

John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11, 5–8 pm Closing Party: November 11, 1–3 pm

Kibbee Gallery, 688 Linwood Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30306 November 10 – December 31, 2018 Curators: Jaynie Crimmins and Marcia Cohen

MANIAC Artists Collective November 9, 2018 – January 25, 2019 The Urban Hive, Sacramento, CA Organized by Andy Cunningham

Friday, October 19 – Sunday, October 21, 2018 (1–6PM) Friday, October 26 – Saturday, October 27, 2018 (1–6PM) Sunday, November 4 (1–6PM)

October 14th – November 10th Opening: Sunday, October 14th, 2:00–4:00 pm Silvermine Galleries, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center April 14 – May 6, 2018 135 Broadway, Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211

DUMBO Open Studios weekend

Melanie Carr Gallery, March 31, 2018 1 North Main, Essex, CT 06426

March 2 – April 8, 2018 Opening reception: Friday March 2, 6–8 pm Artist's Talk: Sunday, March 25, 3 pm

January 19 – February 18, 2018 Opening reception: Friday, January 19, 6–8 pm Artist's Talk: Sunday, Feb 4, 3:00 pm

Sideshow Gallery, January 13 – March 25, 2018 319 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT — a mainstay institution in New England at the forefront of alternative multidisciplinary arts and innovative exhibitions, celebrating its 40th anniversary year.

Into the Blue Again is a solo exhibition of Hackl Fagan's saturated blue paintings on paper. Exploring the nature of synaesthesia through immersive environments, Fagan works with a saturated blue pigment, and employs printmaking and photo-gramming gestures. She positions the paintings as if they're hovering, just barely off the floor, horizontally.

Also on view: Kurt Steger's Scribing the Void, presented initially at ODETTA.

Nov. 3 – Dec. 3, 2017 100 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Exhibit curated by William Norton

October 27 – December 3, 2017 Opening reception: Friday, October 27, 6–8 pm Artist's Talk: Sunday, November 12, 3:00 pm

Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks Saturday, October 21, 2017, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. East Pinetum (East 84th Street), Central Park

Visit the workshop "What Does Blue Sound Like?" and build a color/sound language. rcoblue.com

With over 200 local artists participating Friday, September 22, 7–10 pm Beyond Studios, 272 Siegel Street

In-Case Art Projects, Brooklyn Fireproof Curated by Jaynie Gilman Crimmins and Etty Yaniv Opening Reception: Friday September 22, 6–9 pm

Curated and hosted by Ellie Murphy at her studio 1733 Menahan St., Ridgewood, Queens, NY 11385 September 22–24 Closing Reception: Sunday, September 24, 4–8 pm

September 8 – October 15, 2017 Opening reception: Friday, September 8, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, September 17, 3:00 pm

September 6 – October 14, 2017 John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06510

May 12 – June 18, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, May 12, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, June 11, 3 pm

Art in the Windows Exhibition Series, Curated by Arezoo Moseni April 4 – June 28, 2017 (On view day and night) Mid-Manhattan Library Lobby Vitrines, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library presents the site-specific exhibition What Does Blue Sound Like? by artist Ellen Hackl Fagan. This exhibition features the Reverse Color Organ (RCO) with an interactive web app that viewers can download to their iPhones or Droids. Their phones become a synaesthetic tool, enabling them to explore their own unique opinions about the sounds of colors.

Special event: Joseph Celli, composer, radio producer, and virtuoso on double reed; and Hap Tivey, artist and an early pioneer in the California Light and Space movement; join Ellen Hackl Fagan for the Artist Dialogue Series event in the Corner Room of Mid-Manhattan Library on Saturday, April 29 at 2:30 PM. The event is free.

A.I.R. Gallery, Curated by Liz Surbeck Biddle Featuring works by Tomoko Abe, Liz Surbeck Biddle, Ellen Hackl Fagan, and Jackie Welsh Opening reception Friday, March 17, 6–8 pm Through April 16, 2017

March 17 – April 30, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, March 26, 3:00 pm

January 6 – February 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 pm

October 21 – December 18, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 22 from 6–9 pm Event: Sluice Art Fair's Exchange Rates; Oct 21–23 featuring London-based artists Deb Covell and Brigitte Parusel of Saturation Point as our Flat File featured artists. Artists Talk: Sunday, December 4, at 3:00 pm

September 9 – October 9, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, October 2, 3pm

July 7 – Aug 21, 2016 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 7, 2016, with special guests and original sound composition by RSM Hot Summer Nights: Friday, July 15, 6–9 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, July 24 at 4:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Abstraction, Color, and Sound Date: Thursday, October 13, 6–8 pm Moderator: Jonathan Lippincott Panelists: Barbara MacAdam, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Paul Corio

Hartford Symphony Orchestra launches new contemporary ensemble series with Scribing the Void at Real Art Ways, January 26 at 7 pm.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 6–8 pm Hot Summer Nights: Friday, June 17, 6–9 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, June 19, 4:00 pm

Creative Tech Week, April 29 – May 22 at ODETTA FLUXFair_2016 in Marcus Garvey Park – Harlem, NY, May 3–31, 2016

April 29 – May 22, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 6–8 pm Concert: Drone; Saturday, April 30, 2016, at 8–10 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, May 1, 3–5 pm

March 18 through April 17 Opening Reception: Friday, March 18, 6–8 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, April 3 at 3 pm

The Gallery at NCC, Norwalk, CT Thursday, Jan 21 – Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Artists Talk: Wed Feb 3, 6:30 pm

Space B, Curated by Joseph Fucigna, through February 21, 2016 Above ODETTA, 229 Cook Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Enrico Gomez, Curator. February 11–28, 2016 Opening reception: Friday February 19, 6–9 pm

January 15 through March 6, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday January 15, 6:00–8:00 pm Artists Talk: Sunday February 14, 3 pm

Space B, 229 Cook Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Sideshow Nation IIII January 9 – March 20, 2016, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Richard Temperio and Michael David

Friday, Nov 13, 2015, thru January 3, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, November 13, 2015, 6:00–8:00 pm Artists Talk: Sunday, December 20, 2015, 3 pm

Curated by Debbie Hesse Perspectives......the Gallery at Whitney Center, Hamden, CT September 19, 2015 – January 2, 2016 Reception: Saturday, September 19 from 3–5 pm with talks from 2–3 pm